Glorious revolution dates and stats

Whig view

Bloodless revolution

Moderate political consensus to keep people happy

Just the monarch changed

Sensible revolution

Whig historians

Maccauley

Burnet

Clark

Marxist view

Downplays revolution

Social class power shifts rather than monarchy which had no shift

Marxist historians

Hill

Morton

Burke

Revisionist view

Bloodful revolution

Dramatic change

No divine right limiting power of monarchy

Secular values

Revisionist historians

Pincus

Morill

Trevelyan

Horwitz

Lavoie

Vallance

Traditional view & historian

Not a revolution only religion as driving force

Harris

Toleration act

1689

James departure led to assembly of whigs and tories how many

319 whigs 232 tories

Settlement act

1701

Bill of rights

1689

Monarchs rights left untouched

Choose own ministers

Appoint bishops

Summon prorogue dissolve parliament

Prerogative of mercy

Triennial act

1694

Rage of party

1684

Ireland and Harley’s commission of accounts

1689-91

War with the French

1688-97

Jacobite rising

1689

Glencoe massacre

1692

Assassination plot

1696

Army reduced by parliament

10,000 men

End of war debt

17M

War time expenditure

5.4M

Land tax

1690

Marriage duty act

1695

Window tax

1696

Poll tax

1689-98

Taxes on goods examples

Stamped paper tobacco pipes salt and coal

Million loan act

1693

Raise a loan of 1M

Tonnage act

1694

Investors invited to raise loan of 1.2M to pay for war at interest rate of 8%

Public accounts act

1690

Stops corruption and bribery

Speaker, John Trevor expelled for bribery

Tontine loan

1693

Interest received less than expected

108,000

Investors deal bill of exchange formalised and giving loans due to confidence and trust

£100

Lottery

1694

raised 1M

Offered stake in east India company

1698

2M

Recoinage act

1696

Civil list act

1698

Provided king with income of 700,000

Military expenditure needed parliament consent

William said he felt like a dog

Bill of resumption

1699

Land in Ireland could not be sold to privy council

Mutiny act

1689